News and Events
2008
November 7: Helen Tibbo presented, "Practical Applications of Digital Curation Education"
[pdf] at the Fall 2008 Mid-Adlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Carolyn Hank presented, "Preparing Future Digital Curators" [pdf] at the Fall 2008
Mid-Adlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
in Silver Spring, Maryland.
October 29: Helen Tibbo presented, "DigCCurr I & II :
Building a Digital Curation Curriculm" [pdf] for the
ASIST&T 2008 Annual Meeting panel, "Developing Curriculum for Digital Libraries and Digital Curation Education:
Reflections on Synergies and Divergences" [pdf] in Columbus, Ohio.
September 15: Helen Tibbo and Wendy Duff, DigCCurr I Advisory Board member, presented a paper,
"Toward a Digital Curation Curriculum for Museum Studies: A North American Perspective," at
CIDOC 2008 in Athens, Greece.
August 29: Helen Tibbo chaired a session, "21st Century Data Curation for Archives, Libraries and Museums," at
the Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2008 Annual
Meeting in San Francisco, California.
August 26: Cal Lee presented on "What do Job Postings Indicate about Digital Curation Competencies" at the
SAA 2008 Annual Meeting Research
Forum.
June 26: Interactive paper reporting findings from a digital curation curriculum, competencies, and
challenges survey presented by Carolyn Hank at
IS&T's Archiving 2008 conference.
June 16-23, 2008: Workshop at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2008, titled
"Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators?" presented by Helen Tibbo and IMLS
Associate Deputy Director,
Joyce Ray. Workshop website may be accessed by clicking here.
June 8-14: Helen Tibbo gave an invited lecture, titled "Digital Curation Education: Building Sustainable Programmes," at
the DELOS Preservation Cluster: Summer School 2008 in Tirrenia, Italy.
June: Call for papers and posters put out for DigCCurr2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects, to be held
April 1-3, 2009 in Chapel Hill, NC. Click here for the
conference website and the
call for participation.
May 21: Carolina Digital Curation Fellows and Cal Lee present their two-part paper,
Preparing Future Digital Curators: Part I, A Summary Report on the Digital Curation Curriculum Project:
Part II, Four Perspectives on Applying Academic Understanding in a Practice Setting, at the LAUNC-CH Annual Research Forum
in Chapel Hill, NC. Click here to see the abstracts on the
Forum's website.
February 21-22: Dr. Raymond J. van Diessen, senior managing consultant for IBM Global Business Services in the Netherlands, and
DigCCurr Advisory Board Member, visited Chapel Hill on behalf of the DigCCurr project. For more information on his
visit, see this SILS news release.
January 31: Submission of third interim IMLS report, covering the six-month DigCCurr project period,
July 1, 2007-December 31, 2007.
January 12: First class of INLS 890-046: Digital Curation: Applications and
Challenges, a one-semester,
three-credit course combining Master's and PhD students. Advisory board members serve as guest speakers, either
remotely via video conferencing technologies or in-class site visits. Additionally, members of the SILS-based DigCCurr
project team serve as guest lecturers. INLS 890-046 designed and
led by Helen Tibbo and Cal Lee.
January 8-11: Poster on DigCCurr project presented by Cal Lee at
ALISE 2008.
2007
October 11-12: Cal Lee, Co-PI, invited presenter at iPRES 2007.
August 31: Program session proposed by Helen Tibbo and Cal Lee, "Archival Education for the Digital Age," presented at
SAA 2007, and featuring an invited panel of leading educators and
researchers, including DigCCurr Advisory
Board member, Dr. Seamus Ross.
August 24: First class session for INLS 696: Carolina Digital Curation Fellows (CDCF) Introductory Seminar, a one-semester, one-credit class
led by Helen Tibbo, Cal Lee, and Carolyn Hank.
August 23: Welcoming reception for Carolina Digital Curation Fellows and Local Partners held at
Wilson Library, UNC-CH.
July 31: Submission of second interim IMLS report, covering the six-month DigCCurr project period,
January 1, 2007-June 30, 2007.
July: Meeting of local DigCCurr partners, and selection of Carolina Digital Curation Fellows
for placement in identified practicum sites.
June 18-23: Paper on DigCCurr project presented by Helen Tibbo at JCDL
2007. Additionally, tutorial on digital curation and
digital preservation presented by Helen Tibbo and Carolyn Hank.
May 23: Paper on DigCCurr project presented by Helen Tibbo at
IS&T's Archiving 2007 in Arlington, Virginia.
May: Announcement of Carolina Digital Curation Fellows. Five Fellows accepted for entrance into either the MSLS or MSIS program at SILS
beginning Fall 2007. Fellows awarded two-year Carolina Digital Curation Fellowships.
April 21-22: First meeting of seventeen-member international Advisory Board and DigCCurr
PIs and project team held at UNC-CH.
April 18-20: DigCCurr 2007:
An international Symposium on Digital Curation held at UNC-CH, attracting nearly 300 attendees and
presenters.
January 31: Submission of first interim IMLS report, covering the six-moth DigCCurr project period,
July 1, 2006-December 31, 2006.
January 15: Closing call for papers and presentations for DigCCurr2007.
January 12: First class of INLS 890: Seminar on Digital Curation, a one-semester, three-credit, innovative, cross-institutional, PhD-level graduate course
on issues in digital curation. The course utilized Access Grid technologies for facilitating co-instruction and
participation with students and faculty from the University of Glasgow (Scotland). INLS 890 designed and led by
Helen Tibbo.
2006
November: Recruitment campaign for Carolina Digital Curation Fellowship program underway,
with recruitment support from SILS communications office, including the issuance of a
November 3rd press release.
July 1: Launch of three-year (2006-2009) IMLS-funded DigCCurr project.
June 28: Laura Bush and IMLS announce award
of $562,041 for the SILS UNC-CH project,
""Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation."